Globe-holder.



GLOBE HOLDER.

APPLICATION'HLED SEPT .24, 1914.

1,1 83,657. PatentedMayltE, 1916.

WITNESSES INVENTOR CAME;

THE COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH co., WASHINGTON, D. c.

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THOMAS JAMES LITLE, JR., 013 WOODBURY, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR T0 WELSBAC-H LIGHT COMPANY, OF GLOUCESTER CITY, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF N'EVJ JERSEY.

GLOBE-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 16, 1916.

Original application filed September '7, 1912, Serial No. 719,112. Divided and this application filed September 24, 1914. Serial No. 863,305.

To all whom it may concern:-

Be it known that I, THOMAS J. LITLE, Jr., a resident of Woodbury, county of Gloucester, State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Globe- Holders, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a bottom plan view of an inverted incandescent gas burner provided with one form of my improved spring ring holder; and Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a portion of a holder.

My invention relates to spring ring holders for globes or shades, and is designed to provide a cheap and efficient means for securing the spring ring in position in the holder, which will permit the spring ring to perform its function and at the same time prevent it from becoming disengaged from the holder.

Another object of my invention is to provide a device of this character in which the supporting loop of the spring ring cannot be disengaged from the slot through the holder when the spring ring is in its normal plane.

The precise nature of my invention will be best understood by reference to the accompanying drawings, which will now be described, it being premised, however, that various changes may be made in the details of construction and general arrangement of the parts without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention as defined in the appended claims.

Referring to the drawings, the numeral 2 designates an inverted incandescent globe holder having the usual flange 3. This flange is preferably grooved or recessed for the reception of the spring ring 4. This is formed of spring-wire in one piece with a supporting loop 5 at one side, which projects through a slot 6 in the flange of the holder.

The spring ring may be of any desired form and may act either by contraction or expansion. In the form shown, it normally expands, and its projecting handles 8, 8 pass through slots 9, 9, having hooks 10 to receive them when pressed into holding position. I have shown the ring as supported on swing side loops or arms 10 within the holder, though this may or may not be so, as desired.

The loop 5 is wider at its outer end than the lower portion of the slot 6 through the holder, so that the spring ring cannot be removed when it lies in a horizontal plane with relation to the holder, as the upper wall of the slot is at an angle with relation to the lower wall. This slot is also provided with a recess 11 in line with the upper wall, the width of the slot along the upper wall being equal to or slightly greater than the width of the end of the loop, so that the loop can'readily be inserted when the spring ring is held on a line parallel with the upper wall of the slot.

In assembling the various parts the loop 5 is first inserted in position and the handles are then extended through the slots 9 and bent into proper shape.

The advantages of my invention result from the provision of an opening in the globe holder, the walls of which are so shaped with relation to the loops on the spring ring that the latter will engage one portion of the wall to prevent its removal when the spring ring lies in its normal plane within the holder.

This application is a division of my application Serial No. 719,112, filed September 7 1912.

I claim:

1. In a holder for globes, shades and the like, a gallery, a globe holding spring ring or bale, handles on said bale ends projecting outwardly therefrom, an elongated slot in the side of the gallery through which said handle ends pass, an outwardly projecting lug atthe opposite side of said ring, said lug having an expanded outer end, a passage through the gallery through which said lug extends, the width of that part of said passage in which the lug stands when the ring is in operative position being less than the width of the expanded outer end thereof, one dimension of said passage being suificiently large to permit said expanded end to be passed therethrough when said ring is turned out of its operative plane; substantially as described.

2. In a globe holder for globes, shades and the like, a gallery, a ring-like wire shade retaining element having a loop extending from its intermediate portion, there being a portion of the slot; substantially as described.

3. A shade or globe holder having an annlar flange, a ring-like Wire shade retaining element having a loop extending from its intermediate portion, there being a slot formed in the annular flange of the globe holder through which said loop is adapted to extend, said slot being of general triangular form, said loop having anexpanded outer end, the narrow portion of said loop being approximately the Widthof the bottom of the slot, While the expanded portions are of a greater Width than the bottom of moval thereof Whenthe retaining element is shifted at an angle and the loop is moved to the top of the slot; substantially as described. V

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand.

THOMAS JAMES LITLE, JR.

Witnesses:

Ti-ros. K. LANCASTER, J. H. Joi-rNsoN.

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